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TIL Domino's Noid mascot was discontinued because a mentally unstable man with the surname Noid thought that the commercials were a personal attack against him and held up a Domino's Store at gunpoint for 5 hours making several demands. Afterwords the police told reporters that "he's para-Noid."

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